Excellent post. Some comments forthcoming. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Kinda like losing various geniuses and other "luminaries" > > through > > > > the 40 million+ abortions performed in the USA since Roe v. > > Wade... > > 1. Studies have shown that women who have abortions early in life go > on to have the same number of children they would have had anyway, but > only at the time they want them. Roe v Wade did not significantly > reduce pop. growth rate in the US. Affluence seems to be the major > correlate with fewer number of children in a family, so according to > the above logic we should keep the population poor so that they have > larger families so that we have more luminaries. > > 2. The crime rate-abortion studies are not in any way a policy > prescription for dealing with crime. It simply shows the relationship > between the two and is useful in refuting other theories about why the > crime rate suddenly dropped significantly in the US in the 90s, > theories that may sound logical but have no basis in the statistics. > > 3. The crime rate-abortion studies are not nazi or racial in nature, > they are sociological. We already knew that unwanted children growing > up in a poor, single family environment were more likely to commit > crime, esp males starting around 17-18 yrs old. Prior to RvW, there > were plenty of abortions in the US, only it was difficult for poor, > young, single women to afford them. About 17-18 yrs after RvW the > crime rate starts to drop signficantly and continues for several yrs. > 5 states that had legal abortion earlier see the dramatic drop in > crime rate earlier. It's not that there are fewer numbers of a > certain racial type, it's that there are fewer unwanted babies being > born to a certain sociological group -- poor, young, single women. > > 4. Which brings us to the TMO's Washington, DC Crime Rate study, > which they say proves that the DC course in 93 significantly reduced > crime. I've only been able to find a summary of the study which > states that they compared the crime rate during the course to the same > time period for the previous 5 yrs and found a reduction. What's > strange is that they admit that the crime rate continued to drop in DC > even after the course ended. Normally that's a reason to conclude > that something else, not the course, was the source of the crime > reduction, but the study spins it to say that just proves how powerful > the M-effect really is. > > Of course we know now that crime rate was starting to fall everywhere > in the country, esp cities, in 93. If you compared crime in the > summer of 93 to an avg of the prior 5 yrs in most every other US city, > you would come up with similar statistics that they came up with in > DC. This is why good studies use good controls. And crime rate did > continue to drop in DC and most all cities for the next several yrs, > which further disputes the study's conclusions. >
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